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Establishments have lately tended to increase personnel in their other departments much more rapidly than in the merchandising divisions. More jobs and faster promotions will probably always be found in the merchandising end, but top fight executives today no longer regard buying and selling as the sole guts of the...
"The MacCarmunists do not approve of anyone who in the past has done some talking or thinking, who has had some pity, and who has had some guts. In this respect, as in all others, they operate exactly as their brothers in the Kremlin don.
"And so, if you want to be approved of by the MacCarmunists and not upset the alumni, you had better pick a guy without a head, because then you'd be guaranteed that he hadn't done any talking or thinking in the past that the New Commissars of Education...
The presentation of Messrs. Robertson and Dorgan was particularly irresponsible and was obviously designed to reduce the debate to a farce. These men possessed more guts than perspective or acquaintance with the subject. And from their previous pronouncements this must have been evident to the directors of the program.
Gone was the fanatical exuberance, the frothing and the mouthing. In their place was a profound intensity, expressed with rigorous restraint and the most economical of gestures. Oldtimers were appalled: it seemed to them that Edwin Booth had forgotten what "drama" was. Stage managers and critics begged him not to...